Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
This definitive monograph traces Takashi Murakami’s radical shift from traditional Nihonga painting to the globalized Superflat movement. The volume documents a career-long obsession with Japan’s post-war visual identity and the blurred lines between high art and commercial consumerism. It serves as an essential record of an artist who redefined the contemporary aesthetic landscape.
- Takashi Murakami
- The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
- Hardcover
- 9.5 x 12.5 inches
- Rizzoli
- 284 pages
- Comprehensive survey of paintings and sculptural works
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Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
This definitive monograph traces Takashi Murakami’s radical shift from traditional Nihonga painting to the globalized Superflat movement. The volume documents a career-long obsession with Japan’s post-war visual identity and the blurred lines between high art and commercial consumerism. It serves as an essential record of an artist who redefined the contemporary aesthetic landscape.
- Takashi Murakami
- The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
- Hardcover
- 9.5 x 12.5 inches
- Rizzoli
- 284 pages
- Comprehensive survey of paintings and sculptural works
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This definitive monograph traces Takashi Murakami’s radical shift from traditional Nihonga painting to the globalized Superflat movement. The volume documents a career-long obsession with Japan’s post-war visual identity and the blurred lines between high art and commercial consumerism. It serves as an essential record of an artist who redefined the contemporary aesthetic landscape.
- Takashi Murakami
- The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
- Hardcover
- 9.5 x 12.5 inches
- Rizzoli
- 284 pages
- Comprehensive survey of paintings and sculptural works



















